« Defamation claimant bombs | Main | Michael Laws breaches broadcasting standards again »
Mau about gay issues
By Steven | February 23, 2010
Well, recent events have given a certain piquancy to the broadcasting standards complaint about this exchange between Paul Henry and Alison Mau, on Breakfast last year:
Henry: …a little bit later in the morning I thought we might talk about the Acting Principal Family Court Judge’s call that it’s time the adoption laws were updated to reflect society. What he’s effectively saying, I think, is that you shouldn’t discriminate against homosexual couples when it comes to adopting. I’m a little bit iffy on that…
Mau: Why? Why shouldn’t same sex couples raise children just as well as mixed sex couples?
Henry: It’s not natural, is it?
Mau: Oh don’t start that.
Henry: Well it’s not natural, is it? It’s obviously not natural.
Mau: Not your sort of natural, no.
Henry: It’s not God’s sort of natural and I’m not even religious, but it can’t be, it’s not, like, natural, is it? Like you don’t get a whole clan of cave bears that are all male because that just couldn’t happen. It’s not natural.
Mau: You’re just determined to open a big can of whoop-ass aren’t you?
Henry: I’m not trying to do it… I’m merely…
Mau: Raising a talking point? That’s fine.
Henry: Because I mean people will… it smacks of the sort of thing the Labour Government did of course, doesn’t it? I just think you know I’m iffy on it, ‘cause we’re talking adoption aren’t we? I’m just iffy on it.
Mau: Yes goodness me, iffy – it smacks of human rights. How outrageous!
Henry: Yes human rights. A lot of bad things have been done under the… guise of human rights, haven’t they?
And later…
Henry: Well, it is. It is unnatural, homosexuality…
Mau: No, it’s not.
Henry: …But is it wrong?
Mau: [reading feedback] “To call this unnatural is ludicrous and narrow-minded. Gay couples are great parents and are more than qualified to raise children. In short, it’s about accepting that society is diverse.”
Henry: I mean, it is unnatural though. We shouldn’t be frightened of saying that it’s unnatural. It is unnatural. Although homosexuality is through all species. I don’t know if it’s through all species but many, many species. A lot of monkeys are homosexual.
Mau: Actually… we had one text that said that somebody’s aunt had a homosexual pair of magpies who tried to, who were sitting on eggs to try and hatch them.
Henry: Extraordinary. And they didn’t, did they, hatch? Where did they get eggs from? They stole the eggs, thieving homosexual magpies. The thing is, though, if you go to any animal park, and I’ve got to be careful what I say here, but if you go to any animal park, you will find monkeys being filthy with each other.
Mau: That is completely beside the point.
It seems that Paul Henry didn’t know, and if he did, he’s an even bigger tosser than if he didn’t.
The BSA complaint was about denigration/discrimination. The complaint was – rightly, I think – rejected. The threshold for denigration complaints is high. This was part of a political discussion about adoption. And when viewed as a whole, Alison’s robust responses counteract a lot of the damage to the standard.
Topics: Broadcasting Standards Authority, General | 35 Comments »
35 Responses to “Mau about gay issues”
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
October 19th, 2017 at 1:40 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here|Find More|Read More Informations here|There you will find 80030 more Informations|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
November 5th, 2017 at 2:57 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Read More Infos here|There you will find 20582 more Infos|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
November 8th, 2017 at 9:21 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Find More Informations here|There you can find 9933 more Informations|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
November 20th, 2017 at 11:08 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here|Find More|Find More Informations here|There you can find 75694 additional Informations|Informations on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
November 25th, 2017 at 4:07 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Find More Infos here|There you will find 78307 additional Infos|Informations on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
November 30th, 2017 at 1:38 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More here|Read More|Find More Informations here|There you will find 26426 additional Informations|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
December 4th, 2017 at 8:08 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Find More Infos here|There you will find 1524 more Infos|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
December 10th, 2017 at 12:01 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Read More Infos here|There you will find 49241 more Infos|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
December 12th, 2017 at 12:16 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Find More Informations here|There you can find 52839 additional Informations|Informations on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
December 25th, 2017 at 11:51 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here|Find More|Find More Informations here|There you can find 30960 more Informations|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
December 27th, 2017 at 11:18 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here|Find More|Find More Informations here|Here you will find 43792 additional Informations|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
January 4th, 2018 at 2:47 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Find More Informations here|Here you will find 54279 additional Informations|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
January 5th, 2018 at 10:07 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here|Find More|Find More Infos here|Here you will find 45532 more Infos|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
January 10th, 2018 at 8:58 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More here|Find More|Find More Informations here|There you will find 80307 more Informations|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
January 10th, 2018 at 11:21 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More here|Read More|Read More Infos here|There you can find 46423 additional Infos|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
January 25th, 2018 at 12:48 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Informations here|There you can find 46323 more Informations|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
January 26th, 2018 at 5:26 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Find More Infos here|Here you will find 33059 more Infos|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
February 6th, 2018 at 2:55 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Find More Informations here|Here you will find 97053 more Informations|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
February 12th, 2018 at 11:00 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Informations here|There you can find 13489 more Informations|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
February 19th, 2018 at 8:28 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Find More Infos here|Here you can find 53808 more Infos|Informations on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
March 13th, 2018 at 12:35 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Informations here|There you will find 10737 more Informations|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
April 17th, 2018 at 5:02 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More here|Read More|Find More Infos here|Here you can find 24797 additional Infos|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
April 25th, 2018 at 2:14 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Read More Infos here|There you can find 84164 more Infos|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
May 8th, 2018 at 3:52 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More here|Read More|Find More Infos here|There you will find 4086 additional Infos|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
May 12th, 2018 at 7:43 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Read More Informations here|There you can find 18394 additional Informations|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
May 16th, 2018 at 3:40 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Infos here|Here you can find 1539 more Infos|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
May 18th, 2018 at 10:07 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Find More Infos here|There you can find 28484 more Infos|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
May 18th, 2018 at 4:16 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More here|Read More|Find More Informations here|Here you will find 79053 more Informations|Informations on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
May 21st, 2018 at 10:07 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Informations here|There you can find 19304 more Informations|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
June 6th, 2018 at 4:42 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Infos here|Here you can find 10183 more Infos|Infos to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
June 11th, 2018 at 4:57 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More here|Read More|Read More Informations here|Here you can find 70584 more Informations|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
June 28th, 2018 at 8:56 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Informations here|Here you will find 95785 more Informations|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
July 5th, 2018 at 5:46 am
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Find More Informations here|There you can find 51275 additional Informations|Informations on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
July 14th, 2018 at 1:58 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Find More on|Find More|Find More Informations here|Here you will find 31114 more Informations|Informations to that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]
July 18th, 2018 at 9:14 pm
… [Trackback]
[…] Read More on|Read More|Read More Infos here|There you can find 90437 additional Infos|Infos on that Topic: medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347 […]